St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-29
Hundreds of Solid Business Blocks
That Have Been Built Up as if
by Magic Hands.
Parks Are Being Laid Out and Churches
and Schools Keep Pace With
Business.
A Hive of Industry at South st. Paul,
Where the Stock Yards Are K
Being Built.

growth of settlement just across Rob-
ert street bridge, known as West st.
Paul, which in five years has increased
its population from 1000 to 10000 souls.
AT present the bridges crossing the river
at Robert and Wabasha streets are the
principal thOroughfareS between st.
Paul and its young namesake, but more
OF these structures are promised within
the next two years. First will come the
substantial iron structure extending
from Smith street, on the east bank of
the Mississippi, to Mohawk avenue. on
the west bank, which it is estimated
will cost upwards of S500,000. 1t will
be 100 feet high at West st. Paul and
160 feet on this side of the river, with
roadway 81 feet wide, made to accOmmo-
date cable or other styles of cars.
Work has already been inaugurated
under contracts with responsible build
erS, and it is hoped to have the bridge
completed within year at the outside.
Another bridge that will be voted upon
this fall and probably agreed to unani-
mously, it is proposed to extend from
Broadway to point in West st. Paul
near the bend in the river, and this
structure, similar in style and finish to
that at Mohawk avenue, it is estimated
will cost 100000.
These will afford ample accommoda-
tons to the people of all sections, and
in West st. Paul the tracks are already
laid and ready to connect with those to
be placed on the bridges. Approaching
West st. Paul from the Robert street
bridge the traveller is at once impressed
with the deSirability of the bluffs be-
hind the business portion of the city for
HANDSOME RESJDENCES
and numerous far-sighted people have
taken advantage of the opportunity to
crown these hills with commOdiOuS abid-
ing places. This has been rendered nee
essary by the encroachment of the bust
ness portion of West st. Paul upon
the flats as they are termed, and
on every hand can be seen evidences
of thrift and enterprise in the way of
new, substantial blocks of brick bust
ness houses. Some of these blocks al
| ready under way or completed are as
follows: Pinkham, at Fairfield and
Eaton avenues, cost $4,000; Imeson,
Hubert and Fairfield, $4,000; st.
Peters, South Robert street, $4,000;
Lachance, South Robert, $4,000; Reb-
hOlz, Dakota avenue, $4,000; Shandley,
South Robert, S25, 600; Joe Minnea, Da-
kota avenue, $4,000; Thompson, corner
Dakota avenue and Isabel street, $780,
600; j. c. HighhOus, Dakota avenue,
$4,000; American Manufacturing COM
pany's foundry, South Robert street,
$4,000; La Rau, State and Kentucky,
streets, $4,000; A. Rassler, Concord av
enue, $4,000; A. Shot, Ohio street,
5000; Langevin, Dakota avenue and
Fillmore street, $4,000; Lauer Brothers,
Concord, near Clinton, $4,000; Gadbaut,
Concord avenue, $1,000; Paul Martin,
South Robert, $4,000; Berlandi, corner
State and Concord, $4,000; August.
Adam, Andrew and Concord, $4,000; :
Charles Filter, three-story bricks,
South Robert, $4,000; Hilfrich, near!
Concord Street station, $1,000, and the.
Heisinger hotel, on Chicago avenue, be-
tween Starkey and Dakota, $4,000. i.
Besides the business houses men,
toned there are about forty residences,
ranging in price from $1,000 to O,O00.
apiece now under way, among the most
noticeable being those of Messrs. Paul
Martin, Prescott street, brick building
$4,000; Samuel bearing, on George
street, three stories high, brick, to cost
So, 1000; Isaac st. Pierre, East Winifred
street, $4,000; Mrs. Sarah Ward, Concord
street, $1,000; E. G. Iverson, East Win
fired street, frame dwelling, $4,000.
The LawtOn block on Dakota avenue,
Is probably the finest business block in
w SSt OJ. L dul dliu Was Completed IdSU
fall at the cost of 600.
1t also shelters the West Side bank,
: which has been in operation eight
months, having started on $4,000 capt.
tai. This has since been increased to
100000, and the books show earnings of
10 per cent. for the stockholders, which
is fair indication of the condition of
this part Of the city.
THE CHURBH GROWTH.
Churches, too, have received due con-
SideratiOn and the Clinton Avenue
Methodist congregation is considering
plans for new edifice to cost upwards
of $4,000 and be completed next year
on site at the corner of Clinton avenue
and Isabel street.
A new house of worship for the Eng
fish Lutherans has just been completed
at the corner of Ada and Robe streets,
the cost of which was $4,000.
To-day the BaptistS will hold service
in new church, opposite the Lutheran,
which is of brick veneered, with brown
stone trimmings and cost $4,000. Ger
man Catholics subscribed $4,000 for
their new brick church on Hall avenue,
near Winifred street, and last but not
least, new twelve-roOm public school
building will be constructed on Living
ston avenue, costing $4,000. This will
superSede the Humboldt school, and
overlooking the city on Midway avenue
is the new Hendricks school, named
for the late vice president, and which
cost $35, 600.
Besides these buildings number of
corporations have invested heavily in
property at West st. Paul, the latest
additions being the st. Paul Barrel COM
pany, employing 100 men, who have
purchased site near Concord street
station. upon which they propose to
erect a ware house costing $4,000. The
Glass Works company have laid the
foundation for a new factory near Pick
erel lake, where they will employ from
$50 to 200 hands. These are but few
of the improvements made within the
space of a year, and from reliable
source the GLOBES representative
learned that ST. Paul capitalists had
upwards of 100000 invested in new
buildings for the ensuing year.
There are two parks i'm West st. Paul.
one known as Alice in Dawson's addi-
ton, being improved, while Prospect
terrace, along the edge of the first line
of bluffs overlooking the, river and st.
Paul, is maintained in its primitive
wildness and: attractiveness. Several
propositions for new parks are now
under consideration and due attention
will be given to providing these lungs
of a city for the people Of West St. Paul
by their representatives W. M. Camp
bell.
Application has been made and a IA
yOrable report. rendered to the postoffice
department. for a branch postoffice, as a
drawback in West St. Paul is the nom
delivery of an early morning mail.
Under the present arrangement there is
no service before 9o'clock, and the z
o'clock delivery has to be omitted On ac-
count of the scarcity Of letter carriers.
This evil may be reRedied when the
new postal appropriation becomes avail
able after the .1stof July, 1887, butmeail-